Example sentences of "is [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tucker , who is due to retire in the autumn , said : ‘ I regard the honour as a tribute to the work of Navy News staff past and present , and I 'm particularly proud of the fact that ours has always been virtually an in-house production . |
| 2 | In particular , ‘ Big Al ’ , one of Scotland 's all-time great jumpers , is surprised at the omission of Appleson in favour of the veteran Peter Dods , 34 , who is due to retire after the tour . |
| 3 | PLANS for a voluntary split of business interests is among options which British Gas has proposed to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission which is due to report on the future of the industry next month . |
| 4 | Asthma is due to spasm of the airways that lead to your lungs . |
| 5 | Former North British 0-6-0 Maude No. 673 is due to return on the Bo'ness and Kinniel Railway after a year-long boiler overhaul . |
| 6 | And Ireland 's top traditional dancers are bracing themselves for even more misery at the end of this month when the 18-year-old whizz-kid is due to return for the World Championships in Dublin . |
| 7 | The anniversary falls just before the regiment is due to amalgamate with the Duke of Edinburgh 's Royal Regiment as part of the defence cuts . |
| 8 | A recommendation to demolish the block of 1930s-vintage flats where the family lived is due to go to the council 's housing committee on 5 April . |
| 9 | The tycoon Deacon Chiu is building three film studios at his Tang Dynasty Village , which is due to open in the middle of this year . |
| 10 | The centre is due to open in the basement of Grange Road Baptist Church soon after Easter . |
| 11 | IN STYLE : Belfast International Airport 's new £5 million 108 bedroom hotel , which is due to open in the spring of 1993 |
| 12 | The 25-person , privately-owned White Cross is busy setting up overseas operations : a Dallas , Texas-based office is due to open by the end of the year and a Far East office will follow in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 13 | ICI 's Genklene plant in Runcorn , Cheshire , is due to close before the end of 1995 . |
| 14 | At the same time , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley is due to decide on the future of Bart 's . |
| 15 | And the TCCB disciplinary committee is due to meet at the weekend to decide whether to increase Lamb 's punishment for the awful crime of failing to get his comments cleared by Lord 's before they were published in the Mirror . |
| 16 | The information from the first Panel Survey supplied in the form of grids as well as reports is being analysed to ensure that necessary modifications to the approach or to the methodology will be identified and approved before the second Panel Survey , which is due to start in the autumn . |
| 17 | Building work at the Cotswold Water Park at Somerford Keynes in Gloucestershire is due to start in the autumn . |
| 18 | A tantalising mixture of talent is due to appear at the Town Hall in Oxford on Friday . |
| 19 | This is due to appear towards the end of the year , but in the meantime the two companies have extended their relationship so that Office will be sold through all Novell reseller channels . |
| 20 | The permanent rail track has been installed between France and England , and to mark this achievement , a joint TML and Eurotunnel party is due to travel through the Tunnel , albeit in a borrowed train , in the middle of March . |
| 21 | It is usual to ask for the age , address , and telephone number of patients attending and , in some clinics , other details may be sought . |
| 22 | It is usual to indicate to the management team that the audit appointment is often awarded to its advisers . |
| 23 | It is usual to grow on the cuttings for a year so that the stock stems become somewhat thicker than a pencil but rather less so than your little finger . |
| 24 | It shines , on a silvered copper plate , which is solid to hold in the hand — but the image is evanescent , even when the plate is tilted to just the correct angle to the eye ( like looking at a hologram today ) and the street becomes magically present in all the exorbitant detail that the Daguerreotype possessed . |
| 25 | In summer the skilifts convert to chairlifts and , combining the use of two stages of chairlift with some walking it is possible to ascend to the 1,922m ( 6,304ft ) summit with its commanding oversight of this corner of the cantons of Schwyz and Uri . |
| 26 | As Wassen , the next village after Gurtnellen , is approached , it is possible to see from the road the manner in which the railway line ( now running on the opposite side of the valley from both roads ) climbs the steep " steps " in the valley floor which occasion waterfalls . |
| 27 | On large jobs where the fee is related to the value of the building contract , for example , it is possible to negotiate with the client a basis of drawing monthly fees which relate to the gross value of the building work executed during that period . |
| 28 | For example , it is possible to snip through the genes of the vaccinia viruses ( one of which is the basis for the vaccine against smallpox ) and stitch in some threads of DNA from the rabies virus . |
| 29 | Although the S-R terminology seems well fitted to the case in which is a verbal label , it is possible to dispense with the reliance on the notion of response-produced cues that is central to S-R theory . |
| 30 | It is possible to include in the wording of the Deed that the covenant will cease if certain conditions occur — for example , if you become unemployed or your income falls below a certain level . |